Blogging For Business

Are you wondering how far a visitor gets in filling out your web lead form before giving up? I just made it even easier to track this in Google Analytics. My new Form Abandonment WordPress plugin stems from work done on a few client’s sites, similar to how my other plugin (Featured Images in RSS…

By: Ann Smarty How tiresome is it dealing with the data, planning and other factors associated with content development? As a blogger, that is pretty much all I do day in and day out. No matter how much I love my job, it can be tedious at the best of times, and intolerable at the…

Social media and the mobile movement are giving average people the power to gather, dispense, and report news and information on public platforms. A job traditionally reserved for professional journalists, is now being placed into the hands of all citizens. This shift is giving professional journalists challenges and advantages they never anticipated. The great journalism…

In our world of evolving technology we are always looking for ways to make the next exciting step. So, I am very excited to announce our new WordPress Featured Images In RSS plugin. After realizing that featured images from posts are not included in the site’s RSS feeds, I wrote code for many clients to…

So you have a blog, now what? One of the most common questions I get from clients is what to talk about. It’s easy to start a Facebook page, blog, or any of the many little content consuming monsters we like to create on a whim. But if you’re brand isn’t a fit for baby…

If your web site features great photos that people would want to share, one of the easiest things to do that can increase traffic to your site is adding a nice Pinterest hover button to your images. When a visitor rolls their pointer over the image, a Pinterest button fades in, and when clicked, it will…

Blogger outreach! We’ve all heard about it, and most brands are making blogger outreach campaigns part of their marketing strategy. In a nutshell, blogger outreach is the process of building relationships with qualified, influential bloggers, asking them to write about a particular product, service or experience, providing an incentive for them and their readers with the goal of receiving…

Content creation has become a very crucial role for marketers over the past few years, and it doesn’t look like a role that will be going away anytime soon. Whether you’re managing content, creating a presentation, writing a blog post, or developing copy for social media, there is no doubt that you have to be on your…

There are many hosts that offer 1-click installations of WordPress, but the 1-click install may cause problems that non-technical users may not even be aware of. I hope to detail the potential pitfalls with the typical 1-click WordPress install, and suggest that using the 1-click installation be avoided altogether, using WordPress’ built-in installation wizard instead.…

Coming up with great blogging ideas can be a challenge, whether you’re writing for one blog or multiple blogs. Sure there are thousands of topics to write about, but with the Internet being flooded with content good and bad, you want to stand out, be ready for anything, be relevant and be professional. Blogging has…

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